TEAM EFA LiNKS

CHARiTY OF THE MONTH PROGRAM

Each month, TEAM EFA designates one animal charity as our Charity of the Month.

All EFA Charities of the Month is the charity of choice of at least one EFA member.

EFA members who choose to donate a portion of their product sales to the EFA Charity of the Month, please tag those listings with our cotm tag.

If after the month is done & your products are still tagged with the cotm tag then those will go to benefit next month's cotm. If you wish to donate a percentage to another charity, including a -previous- cotm, please remove 'cotm' from your tag.

Using these tags helps to identify your pledge and makes it easier for shoppers & Treasury makers to locate your cotm products.

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it will permanently retire 110 federally owned chimpanzees from the controversial New Iberia Research Center in Lafayette, La., bringing the U.S. a step closer to ending invasive research on primates. However, hundreds of primates that are owned by the government and private corporations are still eligible for invasive research.

Please send a letter to your representative asking them to support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act, which will phase out federally funded research on chimpanzees and retire the remaining chimpanzees to sanctuaries.

It will be open season for wolves in Wyoming as of midnight on September 30 leaving an estimated 60 percent of wolves in the state vulnerable to eradication. Aside from the unnecessary slaughter of an inherently valuable creature that plays a vital role in a healthy ecosystem, the state's wolf management plan will undo decades of work that went into restoring their presence.

Send a letter to Wyoming's Governor asking him to stop the killing of wolves outside of Yellowstone National Park.

Last year the Pet Safety and Protection Act was reintroduced with the goal of banning Class B dealers, or random source animal dealers that obtain animals from breeders and shelters, in addition to resorting pet theft, in order to sell them to labs and research institutions for a profit. The USDA recently filed a complaint against one of these dealers after numerous violations of the Animal Welfare Act, while an additional four of the seven licensed dealers are under investigation.

Please send a letter to your representative asking them to support this legislation to get rid of Class B dealers for good.

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LiNKS to EFA MEMBERS

Etsy for Animals (EFA) aka Artists Helping Animals, is a team of independent artists, craftspeople, vintage sellers and craft suppliers on Etsy.com who are dedicated to providing charitable relief to animals by donating a portion of the profits from their shops to an animal charity of their choosing, and/or to EFA's featured Charity of the Month.